The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery.

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.

I'm all for the Fairness Doctrine, whatever that is.

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, even as you go kicking and screaming.” (p.18)

Writing a novel is agony.

There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.

I want to rob a bank so much - and I'm from the Midwest, so we have like one bank, no security cameras, and so I designed this thing.

Don't let your mind see through your eyes.

As an actor, you need that constant change, or things will get stale.